While enjoying my recently acquired Residents' 7"s, I thought I'd spice up the Residents discography with some extra pictures and scans. I guess I added over one hundred scans of album covers and 7" picture sleeves.Most of these pictures were 'borrowed' from the fabulous discogs website and from The Residents' website.

Jeff Simmons is recording a new album * * * The new Dale Bozzio album is to be released in February. It's produced by Billy Sherwood * * * Dweezil Zappa has announced two new albums, and a DVD for March 2014.

I already mentioned the "Cheepnis" video that the ZFT released, and I told you that it wasn't available for mainland european folks.Despite living in Belgium, being my fortunate self, I was able to see this 10-minute recording earlier today and it's a shame that it wasn't released world-wide. This is great. GREAT!!

Zappa and The Mothers in the studio, with Debbie Wilson and Linda Sims (The Ikettes) on background vocals... What else does one want for Christmas??

The Residents re-released "Dolor Gererar". It's still labeled RZ1105 (as in 'the fifth release of 2011') but it has a slightly altered cover.
This latest version also says: "A Charles Bobuck Contraption".

Here's the new cover:

And here's the old one:

Originally, the album was released as RZ1102 in a limited edition of 200 copies. It sold out during the Talking Light tour.
And even before that, there was an album called "Dollar General" that got released by RalphAmeric in 2010 in a limited edition of 850 copies. With "Dolor Generar" being an extended version of "Dollar General".

Wednesday, December 18, 2013

There
is no better time for "Cheepnis" than right now. Imagine you're a
Band Leader. Imagine you're a Song Writer. Imagine you're a Musician. Imagine
you're in a Band. Imagine you're a Vocalist. Imagine you're a Backup Singer.
Imagine you're a Record Producer. Imagine you're a Film Maker. Imagine you're a
Film Editor. THIS IS HOW IT'S DONE!!!

ps: Your next email from us concerns Roxy By Proxy ship date for January
2014. And Thank You!----------------------------------------
Unfortunately for us mainland Yuripean fowks, this ten-minute video is not available for us.
That's probabl what the 'English Speaking Territory' is about...
Pity.
Preview looked nice.

Website: Radio6.nl/coliveDuring the broadcast, Frank Scheffer will be showing some exclusive material that he recorded at George Duke's place, while recording his Zappa special.On YouTube.The concert that will be broadcast at the end of the radio show will, of course, feature George Duke.

Sunday, December 15, 2013

LP version. "Music originally written for the performance Mush-Room
(2013) by Grace Ellen Barkey and Needcompany (a Belgian theatre/dance company).
The Residents inspire movement with a mix of percussion and electronics that
marries classical sensibilities with modern exploration. Essential for anyone
who saw a performance, or anyone who didn't see it and wishes to mentally
choreograph their own production."

Friday, December 13, 2013

I grew up with Star Trek. William Shatner was one of my childhood heroes.

Fast forward to 2013 where William Shatner released his 4th (!!) solo album. A co-production with Billy Sherwood.
One of his previous discs featured Adrian Belew as a guest. On "Ponder The Mystery", there's even more Zappa and Beefheart alumni to be found.
Steve Vai, George Duke and Zoot Horn Rollo all contributed to "Ponder The Mystery".

Thursday, December 12, 2013

Just after soundcheck for
their San Diego show on December 7, 2013, Mike Keneally, Joe Travers and Bryan
Beller unbox the just-arrived "Sluggo! Deluxe," featuring three discs
of new stereo and surround mixes, plus live concert video and tons more! A
hand-signed and numbered limited edition of 1000 is selling briskly. All
available now at http://store.keneally.com.

"Conundrum", the documentary that takes a closer look at Morgan Agren's musical world arrived at the United Mutations headquarters earlier this week. Actually, thanks to my participation in the kickstarter project, I even received a signed copy. Nice.
The movie itself, subtitled A Percussive Misadventure, shows Morgan Agren in his favorite environment : drumming.

A lot of contemporary musicians (Mike Keneally, Joe Travers and Dweezil Zappa to name a few) have nice things to say about Morgan Agren. There's even some footage from the Mats / Morgan appearance at one of the 1988 Zappa concerts.

There's some fine concert reviews of the Grandmothers tour and of the Zappa Union festival, as well as an impressive list of recent zappaesque releases : The Archestra, Jack Dupon, Moster, Humble Grumble, Grand General, Fire! Orchestra and Phlox.

In the 1980s, the Ralph Records label issued a number of 7" samplers to promote their artists. These EP's carried the same slogan as the Ralph Records catalogues: "Buy Or Die".A couple of weeks ago, I received a stack of 7" singles. Out of the blue. As a gift. Great stuff: Residents, Snakefinger, Chadbourne, ... and three fine "Buy Or Die" samplers !!Here are the pictures of the "Buy Or Die" samplers.